Ung Lung Chung v. Holmes

GILBERT, Circuit Judge.

This cause was tried before a jury, who found a verdict for $1,549.98 for the plaintiffs, upon which judgment was rendered. The defendant now urges as grounds for a new (rial that the court erred in construing the contract which was sued upon, and that the cause was one which did not involve a controversy concerning an amount sufficient to confer jurisdiction upon the court. The contract sued upon was one whereby the defendant leased to tli« *324plaintiffs certain bop yards, to be by them cultivated, for wbicb they were to receive compensation out of tbe product wbicb they…